آپيان
| آپيان Appian Appianus Alexandrinus | |
|---|---|
| وُلـِد |
ح. 95 الإسكندرية، إيگيپتوس |
| توفي |
ح. 165 روما |
| المهنة | مؤرخ ومحامي |
آپيان من الإسكندرية (Appian ؛ //؛ باليونانية: Ἀππιανὸς Ἀλεξανδρεύς Appianòs Alexandreús؛ باللاتينية: Appianus Alexandrinus؛ ح. 95 – ح. AD 165) كان مؤرخاً مصرياً-يونانياً يحمل الجنسية الرومانية وازدهر في عهود أباطرة روما تراجان، هادريان وأنطونينوس پيوس.
He was born c. 95 in Alexandria. After holding the chief offices in the province of Aegyptus (Egypt), he went to Rome c. 120, where he practised as an advocate, pleading cases before the emperors (probably as advocatus fisci). It was in 147 at the earliest that he was appointed to the office of procurator, probably in Egypt, on the recommendation of his friend Marcus Cornelius Fronto, a well-known litterateur. Because the position of procurator was open only to members of the equestrian order (the "knightly" class), his possession of this office tells us about Appian's family background.
His principal surviving work (Ῥωμαϊκά Rhomaiká, known in Latin as Historia Romana and in الإنگليزية as Roman History) was written in Greek in 24 books, before 165. This work more closely resembles a series of monographs than a connected history. It gives an account of various peoples and countries from the earliest times down to their incorporation into the Roman Empire, and survives in complete books and considerable fragments. The work is very valuable, especially for the period of the civil wars.
الحروب الأهلية، خمسة من الخط اللاحقة في في العمل الضخم، تعلقت أساسً بنهاية الجمهورية الرومانية وتأخذ مقاربة للتاريخ مبنية على النزاعات.
حياته
Little is known of the life of Appian of Alexandria. He wrote an autobiography that has been almost completely lost. Information about Appian is distilled from his own writings and a letter[] by his friend Cornelius Fronto. However, it is certain that Appian was born around the year AD 95 in Alexandria, the capital of Roman Egypt. Since his parents were Roman citizens capable of paying for their son's education, it can be inferred that Appian belonged to the wealthy upper classes.
It is believed that Appian moved to Rome in 120, where he became a barrister. In the introduction to his Roman History, he boasts "that he pleaded cases in Rome before the emperors." The emperors he claims to have addressed must have been either Hadrian or Marcus Aurelius and definitely Antoninus Pius, for Appian remained in Egypt at least until the end of the reign of Trajan (117). In the letter of Cornelius Fronto, it is revealed that a request on behalf of Appian to receive the rank of procurator occurred during the co-regency of Marcus Aurelius and his brother Lucius Verus between 147 and 161. Although Appian won this office, it is unclear whether it was a real job or an honorific title. The only other certain biographical datum is that Appian's Roman History appeared sometime before 162. This is one of the few primary historical sources for the period.
الأعمال
الطبعات
- (in Latin). World Digital Library. Retrieved 2014-02-28.CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
- Editio princeps, 1551
- Schweighäuser, 1785
- Bekker, 1852
- Ludwig Mendelssohn, 1878–1905, Appiani Historia Romana, Bibliotheca Teubneriana
- Paul Goukowsky, 1997–, Appien. Histoire romaine (Greek text, French translation, notes), Collection Budé.
- Carsana, Chiara (ed.). Commento storico al libro II delle Guerre Civili di Appiano (parte I). Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2007. 309 pp. (Pubblicazioni della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università di Pavia, 116).
- الترجمات الإنگليزية
- W. B., 1578 (black letter) – possibly William Barker – used by Shakespeare
- J. D[avies], 1679
- Horace White, 1899 (Bohn's Classical Library);
- Book I edited by James Leigh Strachan-Davidson, 1902.
- Books XIII–XVII (Civil Wars), trans. John Carter, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1996
الهامش
- ^ White, Horace (1912). "Introduction". Appian's Roman History. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Loeb Classical Library. pp. vii–xii. ISBN .
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^ Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article آپيان.
- ^ Appian Proem. 62
- ^ Michael Petrus Josephus Van Den Hout, A Commentary on the Letters of M. Cornelius Fronto, Volume 190 of Mnemosyne (Brill, 1999)
المراجع
- William Smith (ed.) (1870), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol. 1, pp. 247–248
وصلات خارجية
- نطقب:Wikisource author-inline
- at Livius.org
- at LacusCurtius
- Works by or about آپيان at Internet Archive
- Review of Paul Goukowsky and Phillippe Torrens, eds., in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
